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RESTRICTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restricted mean? 

RESTRICTED (adjective)
  The adjective RESTRICTED has 3 senses:

1. subject to restriction or subjected to restrictionplay

2. restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man')play

3. the lowest level of official classification for documentsplay

  Familiarity information: RESTRICTED used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


RESTRICTED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to restriction or subjected to restriction

Context example:

of restricted importance

Similar:

circumscribed; limited (subject to limits or subjected to limits)

closed (not open to the general public)

off-limits; out-of-bounds (barred to a designated group)

Also:

classified (official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation)

confined (not free to move about)

unfree (hampered and not free; not able to act at will)

Antonym:

unrestricted (not subject to or subjected to restriction)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man')

Synonyms:

qualified; restricted

Similar:

modified (changed in form or character)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))


Sense 3

Meaning:

The lowest level of official classification for documents

Similar:

classified (official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation)


 Context examples 


The RSL are almost all restricted to slopes steeper than 27 degrees.

(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)

It allowed the authors to more accurately locate the third planet, but is restricted to larger deviations of the flow, greater than about 10%.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)

The participants to the study were placed on a fixed diet and allowed either a normal 8.5 hours of sleep or a restricted 4.5 hours of sleep for 4 consecutive days.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

The team found that mice that had their diet restricted by 50% for a week before the surgery showed less liver damage than mice provided with unlimited food.

(Pathways Underlying the Benefits of Calorie Restriction, NIH)

Non-pathologic expression of these proteins is restricted to male germ cells.

(Cancer/Testis Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

A 9-residue human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted fragment of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).

(Carcinoembryonic Antigen Peptide 1-6D, NCI Thesaurus)

To investigate, they restricted the diet of mice previously given full access to food.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

A cancer vaccine containing HLA-A*2402-restricted epitopes derived from DEP domain containing 1 (DEPDC1) and M phase phosphoprotein 1 (MPHOSPH1) with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(DEPDC1/MPHOSH1 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A peptide cancer vaccine comprised of human leukocyte antigen HLA-A2-restricted peptide derived from a metastatic melanoma cell line of patient NA17, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activity.

(NA17.A2 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Exosomes derived from autologous maturing dendritic cells (DCs) are pulsed with HLA-DP04-restricted MAGE-3, and HLA-A02-restricted peptides NY-ESO-1, MAGE-1, MAGE-3, and MART-1.

(NSCLC Antigen-Loaded Dendritic Cell-derived Exosomes, NCI Thesaurus)



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